Power Quotes
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.Victoria Billings
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles... an amateur promoter, a glad - Hander, embryo Rotarian, caf - Society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.Harold Taylo
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.Alexander Hamilton
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation? s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.Miguel de Cervantes
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.Stephen Hawking
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.Fawn M. Brodie
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.G. C. Lichtenberg
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.C. C. Colton
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.La Rochefoucauld
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.William Hazlitt
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.Johannes Meister Eckhart
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse - Tung
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.Adam Smith
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.H. G. Wells
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.Tryon Edwards
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.Sidney Madwed
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.Saville
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.Friedrich Nietzsche
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.Nelson Rockefelle
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton, 1887
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.Carl Sandburg
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.Margaret Mead
